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Speaker: Welcome to Spill the Kibble. I'm Cal. I am Dr. G. And I'm Dr. M. And we're here to tell your pet animal clinic stories. But first, how are you both doing?
Speaker: Jeff. Don't all speak at once. Listen, i am doing great. And I can tell you why. Because i have a little bit of a caffeine problem. It's one I developed when I was in vet school because I pulled a lot of all-nighters. And so now I need caffeine relatively often. And my caffeine of choice used to be coffee, but then i like a little energy drink. I like a little i like some bubbles sometimes.
Speaker: Have you guys seen... The rampant amount of supposed mice being found in Alani's. No. The Alani energy energy drink. Multiple people keep on like drinking a solid like two thirds of it and it still feels heavy and they try to pour it out and they find a mouse inside the can.
Speaker: Stop. No. I've heard bad things about that company though. Well. I'm just saying no hate to them. Hopefully they can figure it out. No, I just saw one that just happened.
Speaker: Do you drink that drink? I don't. I have a different brand. Oh, okay. Well, good thing. So that's why I'm good because I don't have the yucky yucky mouse brand that everybody else likes to drink. What is your ah energy drink flavor of choice? Oh, I believe you are what you eat, and I am a a monster, and that is what I enjoy. will Oh, she's a da-da-da-da monster. Okay. I'm a monster. Have you ever tried Celsius? I hear it's like...
Speaker: insane i have it's okay i think it might be uh made by the same company that makes a lotty so you might still be you might still be going to a tiny little mouse party if you drink celsius don't quote me i'm not sure do you think the settlement is for finding mice in your in your drink i don't know but i know i saw a girl she went to the hospital obviously as you do because she drank two-thirds of it and they put her on doxycycline I imagine for possible lepto exposure.
Speaker: o From a mouse being in your drink. Makes sense. Yeah. I don't think they told her that, but that's what I inferred. Let's just go ahead and get you on a little something here. So like, I know like mice are just in warehouses. That's just like a thing. It's bound to happen. Yeah. um And I think that that industry, maybe we don't want the mice obviously going into the cans. Yeah. But one industry that does let mice fall into cans and doesn't care is screen printing.
Speaker: um When I worked a screen printing company, we would accidentally get mice that fell into paint because you don't have to close the top of the paint because you have to cure it under light and heat. So you can just leave it open. and They mix the paint and then you can see the color. and Like you don't have to have a lid on it. So many a time a mouse would be found in there, but we just kept using it because it's paint and it doesn't matter. So you could be wearing a shirt that was screen printed and a mouse was in that paint at one point.
Speaker: It's like Julius Caesar in the ocean. Mickey and Minnie. R.I.P. There has to be a certain pest per million where where you're it's more loaded than paint, right?
Speaker: I think I worked there for like four or five years. Never changed out the cans. And I saw it happen three times. You saw him fall in or someone like found one and said, ah push it back down.
Speaker: Well, they always took it out. Oh, okay. Okay. but they just But they didn't throw the paint away. okay So at that point, it'll never get to be more mouse than paint. that's No. No, no, no, no.
Speaker: It's more of like a look the LaCroix of paint. It's been given the the essence of of mouse. Yes. Just a spritz of mouse. A mouse's soul is in that is in that screen print. Wisp of whisker.
Speaker: ah I like it. uh darn it uh a whisper of whisker there it is a whisper of whisker even better i love it i think i'm pro mice in my paint not in my energy drink yeah i would like to be neutral on mouse paint that's fair you're allowed you're allowed i feel like that's survival of the fittest if that mouse fell in the paint the others are like oh there goes gerald Now, Kel, when you were in the factory, if you'd fallen in the paint, would you feel the same way?
Speaker: Well, they still would used the paint even if I had fallen in. Right. But if you don't make it out of this thing alive, are thinking survival the fittest? Or i wish I wish I was neutral. I'm not pro-Kel falling in fates. Not to be a real Debbie Downer, but I'd be dead. I wouldn't have any opinion.
Speaker: Yeah, but your estate would. Oh, yeah. How would you feel, Dr. M? I'd sue. There you go. And I hope the mouse families do.
Speaker: And I would ask for nothing less. Yeah. To get my revenge. Good beagle representation. Yeah, I don't think I'd get a lot out of ah a t-shirt printing place, but, you know, some shirts for sure.
Speaker: wo some commemorative memory memorial shirts for you, for sure. Brightly. Brightly colored effigies of the fallen. Yeah, of course. She died in what she loved, paint.
Speaker: He died and she died. ah um That's just to a fair warning, though. If you do enjoy a little energy drinky poo, maybe just pour it into a secondary cup, which is what I typically do because I like to use a straw. So I usually don't drink out of the can anyway. i pour that sucker into a cup. Could save you from sipping on mouse juice.
Speaker: Now, I've been told never to drink from a second cup. By who? That's never go to a second location. Okay. It's not the same thing? No. Okay.
Speaker: Your taste buds are allowed to go, just not you, the person. ah Listen, all I'm really saying is I never found anything other than delicious neon green energy in a can of NOS.
Speaker: That's fair. It's good enough for Dominic Toretto. It's good enough for this this v eight This hemi. This hemi, old man. How do you feel about a dirty soda? Because I just went to McDonald's and got a dirty Dr. Pepper, and I didn't know they made them. All right, what's dirty Dr. Pepper?
Speaker: It's Dr. Pepper with, like, cream and, like, creamer and whipped cream it. Yeah, no, that sounds good. yeah It sounds like a float without the ice cream. Yeah. and Love a Coke float.
Speaker: The Mormons are starting to take over culture. It started with Crumble Cookie, and then they had TV shows. Now there's dirty sodas in your McDonald's. oh well Is Crumble Cookie a more Mormon establishment? I believe so. Don't quote me, but I'm fairly certain that it does. i never would. We'll what we' let the audio quote you.
Speaker: Shoot, shoot, shoot. Their drug of choice is sugar, because they can't have any other drug. It'd be sugar. nice They are not allowed to have alcohol or caffeine, so they drink soda, which is caffeine, but I don't know.
Speaker: You're looking at your screen enough where wondering if you're reading a reference of what Mormons are allowed to drink or if you're just very focused and going from knowledge. No, I just, okay, it the the creators of a crumbled cookie were raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. So I stand by you can quote me. It is a Mormon cookie company.
Speaker: tough And they're delicious. Period. Period. Well, I have some stories. Wait, nobody asked how I was doing. Wait, how are you doing?
Speaker: I'm going to break. going to die. Hey, why, bud? ah My inbox when I started this was at 960 and it's already at 964. And I'm going to hit a thousand and that's going to do a lot to my soul.
Speaker: Help. Deer spill the kibble. What do I do? My inbox is... Filling faster than i want to empty it. Is it junk mail? Probably. is Isn't all of it if I don't need to open it up?
Speaker: Select all trash. Oh, no. there's probably some There's probably some good stuff in there. It's called rules in Microsoft. Well, I do that in my Google, but there's, I don't know. It really just categorizes stuff. It doesn't take any action. you want to know how many emails are in my inbox?
Speaker: How many? No, four. You're close. There's ten. It's got feel pretty good, huh? So what I do is I have a million folders. My inbox is my to-do list.
Speaker: If it's junk, delete. If it needs to go into a certain folder, it goes into a certain folder. And then whatever's in my inbox is what i have to currently work on. But once it's in the folder, it's add a site out of sight, out of mind. Because I've already done it.
Speaker: Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, that's the strategy. I have 96. I'm doing all right. i have ninety six i'm doing all right That's the start of mine at a four. It's fine. I'm fine. You know, it's not that serious. I'm sorry I blew this out of proportion. No, you're allowed. It's overwhelming when it hits that that beautiful fourth digit.
Speaker: I want that first digit. Can be a professional email organizer? Because I would be very good at it. What's your going rate? I don't know yet. We could do a test trial and I'll see how long it takes and then I'll give you a discount.
Speaker: All right, get a pen. I'm going to tell you the password all my emails. I feel like that's a much more boring version of like Hoarders, but it's just going through like... Reverse Hoarders. Sales at Macy's. Yeah.
Speaker: I'm really good at it though. Yeah, it does not scratch my... It does do it does absolutely nothing for my dopamine. It doesn't fill my cup. No, my cup's running dry. I don't like doing it. I have to do it or I will not stay on track.
Speaker: I manage. I don't know. I don't know what those 96 emails are and I'm not going to find out today. Somehow I manage. I also work in front of a computer every day. So like it's what else? I'm good. That's got to help. Yeah. I don't like opening my personal email at work.
Speaker: That's understandable. Because what if I forget to log out? And everyone's going to find all of the coupons you didn't use. All of my wasted coupons. I'll be so upset. They're going to be really mad because in today's day age, you've got to be using those coupons. A refund from Ticketmaster from during COVID that I've let lapse by two years.
Speaker: Yeah. have to be really embarrassing for you. Okay, well, as riveting as emails are... Shall we go to stories? What if we called them zoo sales? Yeah, let's do a little story.
Speaker: Let's do it. Just to preface this, ah these stories are zoo related. Ooh, we love a zoo. So let's get in it. The reptiles have been housed.
Speaker: The dolphins have been shown. And my kid already lost their commemorative cup. That thing cost $19. It's time to spill the kibble. Yeah, so I found these two stories, and I kind of like rewrote them to be a little bit more interactive and fun for us.
Speaker: Thank you. So the first one this story is about the single most attention-seeking animal I've ever worked with. Now, before we continue on, what do you both think that animal is? Homo sapiens.
Speaker: Yeah, I was thinking probably monkey, although gotta have a shout out for the peacock.
Speaker: They love showing off them feathers. That's the boys. Leave the ladies out of this one. A bird loves you I'm going to give you a tiny hint. It's something you would you would unexpectedly think of when you hear attention seeking.
Speaker: Naked mole rat. I was thinking something rodent-y. Prey. Prey animal. ah Perhaps a stick bug. Grizzly bear. Cat.
Speaker: Well, you're very far off, so I'm just going to tell you. Wait, far from cat? No, I can work with that dog. Snake. This more zooey. Egg. it is a... What?
Speaker: Does it move from an egg? I just said egg. email.
Speaker: I know. Honey, we were there. we like And it was bad, and we tried to move on I liked it a lot. Okay, I'm just going to tell you. Hit me up. here we up It was a stingray. Okay. Stick button to stingray pipeline. I was getting there. And before I get into the story, what do you think this stingray's name is? Jessica.
Speaker: Sting Raymond. but That's really good. That's good. Egg. but but and I'll put a cake. Yeah, like that. Be-ba-ba-ba-ba, Stingray. Don't say Steve.
Speaker: Too soon. Too soon. No. But it's along the lines of Steve. Steven? Steven?
Speaker: Sting Stingly, Mr. Sting. Okay, I'm just going to tell you. His name was Fred. Aw, little Fred. i like that.
Speaker: I see the face. Yeah. All right. friend Now, Fred was technically still a baby southern stingray, which sounds harmless until you realize baby still means he was already three feet across.
Speaker: Whoa. He just little fella. He love corn cob pudding and swimming with his siblings. A wingspan. That's up. That's that's halfway up.
Speaker: I know. So he was too small for the big shark tank with the massive adult rays. So he lived in the touch pool with the calmer cow nose rays where tourists could pet them.
Speaker: Hmm. Cute. We've all seen a touch pool. Wait, that seems dangerous. He's just a baby. We're putting a baby stingray in the touch pool? With the other ones, with the cow-nosed ones.
Speaker: Aren't they dangerous? I mean, they tell him not to touch the tails. I don't know. At what age did they become dangerous? Yeah, why don't they get their license to kill? I don't know.
Speaker: When does it go full? Stingray purge. Before we judge Fred, should we continue on with the story? Yeah, probably. think I'd draw my conclusions on this. I'm pro Fred. sure, let's see where it goes. Okay, well, Fred absolutely loved being the center of attention. Ham. Not in a cute way either. In a theater kid trapped in a sea pancake kind of way. Rachel Berry. Yeah.
Speaker: He would swim up to guests, demanding scratches, rub himself against the pool filters when nobody acknowledged him, and allegedly learned how to photobomb tourist pictures on purpose. huh Fantastic. like this The staff said his dream in life seemed to be becoming one of those viral stingray photos where the ray ends up halfway on top of somebody. yeah Fantastic. Also, this is an old story, so maybe he is now.
Speaker: He could. We don't know. He come out have got grew up and lived his dream. Maybe. Okay, so apparently Fred also discovered that if he poked the top of his face out of the water vertically and made this horrible wet shurp sound at tourists, people would immediately pet him. You're to to put that in the show warning triggers now.
Speaker: Shurp. I believe it's called squelching. no Shurp. So naturally, he started using it constantly. It's good. and would If you saw a stingray in a touch pool and it was going sharp, would you pet it? 100%.
Speaker: a No. Would you ever touch anything in a touch pool? Are you afraid of it? I'm not afraid of anything except for sharks. So if this isn't sharks, I'm okay.
Speaker: but i love a touch pool. You wouldn't touch Fred. If he's slurping? What if he's sick? What if I stress him out? You have to trust the zookeepers to know if he's sick. If he's on on display, he's all right.
Speaker: Fair. I do. Listen, I stand with zookeepers. That's right. the good All the good ones. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if I'm bringing a weird energy. up I feel a little standoffish and I'm not sure why. And I'm sorry. come play with us in this space. I think you don't like stingrays. I've taken a role upon myself for some reason. Well, they killed Steve.
Speaker: I know. It's hard. but it' touch pool And I get that he's cute. But you know what? Apparently Jeffrey Dahmer was too. And look how that turned out. Not all stingrays. And Fred wasn't born yet.
Speaker: Yeah. but Maybe. No, but I, you know. And Steve doesn't blame the stingray. No. But we're just putting in a place where going touch. If you got, you know, if you got some guy who potentially could be that dangerous, maybe they shouldn't be in the the touch tank.
Speaker: Even if he has a hand. all stingray. Don't touch it with your heart directly, I guess. Don't swim with your hands. Don't fall in all the time. i just saw I just saw someone jumped into the, ah who's that monkey?
Speaker: Who's the monkey that fell in love with the plushie? Timothy? Oh, I can't remember his name. Wait, loved him. It just happened, right? Yeah. Someone jumped in there. How quickly? Wait, should go say hi to him? Yeah, what if someone fell in love with Fred? They jumped in and they got stinging in the heart and then... Well, that's a Shakespeare play, baby.
Speaker: Write it up. And then Fred's getting sent out to pasture. Listen, let's just see where the story goes. Yeah. um We also often noticed Fred had really specific opinions about people.
Speaker: He apparently preferred women, possibly because of the scented lotion or perfume on their hands. but He ignored calm, polite children entirely in favor of targeting the loud, chaotic kids who wanted absolutely nothing to do with stingrays.
Speaker: Which honestly makes him sound less like a marine animal and more like a drunk guy at a pool party. Tide's turning in my favor already. This is good. Definitely keep going. He's just a guy.
Speaker: So one day i was training a brand new volunteer at the touch tank. I was trying to stay professional and explain procedures while Fred repeatedly surfaced nearby begging for attention. sure But instead of stopping to pet him, I ignored him and kept talking.
Speaker: Big mistake. What do you think Fred did? Stabbed him in the heart. okay Playfully squirted water at the zookeeper. Yes, he probably squirted water. Splashed. Did a big splash. Fred disappeared underwater for a few seconds. Then suddenly this stingray launched a massive wing flap straight out of the water like he'd been personally insulted. Tank water exploded everywhere. The new volunteer and I got drenched and I unfortunately got a mouthful of Ray tank water. yeah raph What do you think this touch pool tastes like?
Speaker: Um, dirt and pennies. I was going to say ham because Fred's an attention seeker. oh Dirty penny hams. Apparently this water tastes like fish oil, salt, and people's hands. Ooh, that's rough. Which, that description made me go, hmm, how many people's hands have you licked? But...
Speaker: Yeah, people's furlands. Lots of lotion, maybe. Maybe. yeah Perfume. Sunscreen. i don't know. The story doesn't end there. Out of the silence, while we're drenched from the middle of the pool, we just hear slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp.
Speaker: And then Fred's floating there proudly, flapping around like he just taught everyone an important lesson about customer service. The keepers also said Fred used to leap around the tank constantly until another ray died after jumping out.
Speaker: So they had to discourage it. yeah Now everybody's worried because Fred is smart enough that when he eventually gets too big for the touch pool and has to move to the tank, he's probably going to be furious about it.
Speaker: Which means somewhere in the future, there's potentially full-grown nine-foot stingray named Fred plotting revenge because nobody scratched him enough. Oh, see, I feel like Fred just needs his own show at that point. Like he clearly craves stardom.
Speaker: He is a star. I could see Fred having his own stuffed animals at the zoo. I could see him having his own cartoon, a mascot. The monkey's name was Punch and he could be the next Punch for sure. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker: I guess i have ah I don't have a good ah capacity for the intelligence, like the the capacity intelligence of a stingray. I'm going to look into this afterwards because I feel like i've I've drawn a line that I don't want to be on the side of it.
Speaker: Yeah. and And that shows growth. And I'm proud of him for that. I mean, like he almost sounds like he's a octopus, like what intelligence wise. Yeah. young Attention. And like, although I don't I hear that an octopus in a touch tank is a very problematic and not a good idea at all.
Speaker: ah Because they're unhappy in there? No, they will just they will just suck onto you and take you right under. oh Little kids? I stand with octopus now. I'm back on my side of the line in the sands.
Speaker: Oh boy. It's me, punch, a bunch of octopi, and then there's you guys with your with your cutesy nine foot stinger, eh? You know what? We'll take Fred. I also, I went to a touch tank one time when I was much younger that had horseshoe crabs. That was before I knew how like important and delightful and wonderful horseshoe crabs are. um And so I feel very blessed that I got to kind like and hold one. Important how?
Speaker: Oh, okay. I don't remember. It's their blood, right? Their blue blood. They do some sort of, they make something with it. i agree. i can't think of it. She's a crafty queen. They're living fossils.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. What do we get? We make something good out of it Oh, okay, yeah. Scientists use their blood cells to develop a test called limulus amebocyte lysate, or LAL, which checks new vaccines for contamination.
Speaker: So it literally shows that vaccines are safe to give to humans. The horseshoe crabs donate their blood and donate. We exsinguinate them slightly, um but they take really good care of them because they're like a very important part of the vaccine production process.
Speaker: Wow. That's dope. I know. Okay, I always wonder, like, who figured that out? don't Freaks.
Speaker: Some vampire freak, probably. yeah Like, let's just test all the animal blood in the world. We gotta drain them all, right? And let's just start doing stuff with it. Gotta drain them all.
Speaker: Because it's one thing if you're a weirdo and you decided to dream you know drain a horseshoe crab and then drink it and you got, like, your hair quality was nicer or something. But to then say, i still don't know what this stuff does. Let's start putting vaccines in it.
Speaker: Do you guys want to know how much a gallon of horseshoe crab blood is worth? Please tell us. 60K. i was going to say 15.
Speaker: 60K. So what you're telling me is I need to have a horseshoe crab farm. I'm telling you that they're adorable and that they are good little guys. lula That's all I'm saying. there I haven't been, i guess haven't spent enough time in the beach lately, but growing up, we absolutely had ah horseshoe crabs around. Aw.
Speaker: Find the beach. They're so cool. Often. Were you kind to them? Of course. Okay. All right. All right. I'll believe you. Listen, this is my calling.
Speaker: i love all animals. Except for mosquitoes and ants in my kitchen. Okay. The next story is probably one of my favorite stories. Ooh, we love that one.
Speaker: Okay. Picture it. July 1969. nineteen sixty nine I'm there. Zoo workers arrive early one morning after a huge overnight rainstorm and immediately realize something has gone horribly wrong.
Speaker: A concession stand near one of the exhibits has been completely trashed. Windows smashed. A cash register had been knocked to the ground. It basically looked like someone threw a frat party in the middle of the zoo overnight.
Speaker: What do you guys think happened? Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens. Some sort of creature got out of its enclosure and threw a party without mom and dad's approval.
Speaker: Every ounce of my experience, education, and intuition wants me to blame this on Stingrays. but Fred is an innocent young man.
Speaker: And yet, I know they don't breathe good.
Speaker: historically, they're not a good good air breathers. So then I would think trash pandas, but we're definite not going to house those. Tanuki, probably not in America.
Speaker: going to go red pandas. They're cute, but mischief abounds. Okay. All right. All right. I hear that. Well, um so you guys did guess that it wasn't people, at least. Oh, for sure. It was an animal. Yeah, people would never ruin something.
Speaker: Nothing had actually been stolen. The money was still there, so the workers were trying to figure out what animal could have possibly caused this kind of chaos. just want to see the world And apparently, whatever it was had a serious sweet tooth, since this concession stand sold marshmallows that visitors could buy to feed the animals. This is getting cuter by the second. Now what animal do you guys think it could be?
Speaker: Like an otter, maybe? i think, hey, boo-boo, you got a bear. You, bears like marshmallows. Bears do like marshmallows. Who doesn't like marshmallows? That's true. And then we need to the opposite of that animal.
Speaker: ah That also likes marshmallows? No, the ones that hate them. Wait, you're right. No. Which opposite do you want? I want, I think everyone, i think almost everyone likes marshmallows. Alligators also like marshmallows.
Speaker: I think. But they're very opposite of bear. Yeah, no, because bears like them. So I think everyone likes them, but that's going to make it tough to narrow down. So we need to identify the very rare creature that dislikes marshmallows, then pick that species' exact opposite animal.
Speaker: And that's who loves it the most. I didn't know you were a a marshmallow-ologist. I dabble. I dabble. Yeah. Kind of renaissance man. I can juggle things, too. Marshmallows? marshmallows? Yeah. archuchhi I could juggle marshmallows. Binnies and jumbos?
Speaker: At the same time. What about shapes? When they're the same when they're the same size, it's easier. Are you the chubby bunny champion? I'm not, but I was just telling Sam that I i did win the six saltines in a minute challenge.
Speaker: That's very impressive. Still standing, yeah. Very i impressive. The trick is you gotta get your mouth real wet. Yeah, all at once. yeah i don't worry about Don't worry about chewing as much as you think you need to.
Speaker: I imagine the thing that likes marshmallows the least would be a tarantula. Okay. Okay. Tarantula. Eight legs. Half that.
Speaker: Four Do you want me to just let guys know? Damn, it's still a lot of animals. Yeah, let's just find out, shall we? Okay, so for years, the zoo had a snack stand directly across from the polar bear enclosure. Wait, well, just because it's near doesn't mean they did it. Okay, okay, okay. Hey, Doc, I think we should let Kelly keep telling the story before we get too down a rabbit hole.
Speaker: All right, right, all right, all right. Okay, so visitors could apparently buy marshmallows specifically to throw to the bears. This is damning evidence. So these polar bears had spent years watching people buy marshmallows treats, along with other snacks they couldn't have.
Speaker: So it was polar bears. They decided to cut the middleman. Well, now, how are these polar bears getting out of their enclosure in the middle? That's exactly what I was going to ask you. I'm worried. How do you think they got out of their enclosure?
Speaker: Crawling on top each other. And then. For the marshmallows. Yeah. Lowering a rope. Also, this is 1969. Okay. okay So, I mean. We're out there. security cameras. Because we're not locking polar bear enclosures. Listen, it's.
Speaker: It's fun out there. Well, it had just stormed, so maybe something got like knocked over or something got damaged and a really there it wasn't in a really bad storm. They edged like a, they just kind of jammed ah a folding chair underneath against the door of their enclosure and it got swept away by the turret.
Speaker: Yeah, or maybe like a tree or some sort of faux rock. I don't have a cow, man. I'm sure it's fine. Those are good guesses, but not thank you correct. All right, fair enough. but probably So this polar bear enclosure was unique because at this time, the zoo used moated grotto exhibits to give guests an unobstructed view of the animals.
Speaker: The second the moat flooded, the polar bears made a direct beeline for the concession stand, like they've been planning this heist for decades. I so forgot about the rain. That's awesome. Amazing.
Speaker: Amazing. Now, how many bears do you guys think descended upon this marshmallow concession stand? Four. Three. That's a bad price is right. Five. i already said three.
Speaker: ah So by the time staff arrived, the seven escaped bears had already eaten every marshmallow, moved onto the ice cream and chips, and were apparently just hanging around the crime scene. Whoa.
Speaker: That's amazing, but also like very intimidating. that's There's just seven loose bears and a sugar rush yeah in the 60s. This is the original cocaine bear story.
Speaker: yeah When cocaine was marshmallows. sugar I would like to imagine, were you about to ask how they lured them back to their enclosure? i feel like they got more marshmallows. And they were like, come on.
Speaker: And they went straight for it because they know what they like. No darts needed in this scenario. That's my idea. or like g Or one of them dressed up as a beautiful girl there. Stood in the center blowing kisses and batting eyelashes.
Speaker: Well, I was also thinking about the asymmetry of this septet. septtet you Yeah, right? Except plenty of bears. There's an odd bear out.
Speaker: Okay. what if What if six are already coupled up, you dress up as a sexy lady bear, and then you've got yourself one big problem. oh well Oh. The six are out there basking in there basking in their sugar high.
Speaker: Yeah, you're right. No. no but dont Don't make it that easy on me. Tell me I'm wrong. Well, i have I have details about how the bears got. I would love nothing more than to hear this. Well, five of the bears calmly wandered back into their enclosure once the workers showed up.
Speaker: Because they were in a pentuple. They were kind of like, uh-oh, mom and dad are here. We better scurry back to where we should be. Yeah. ah One wandered off to bother the grizzly bears.
Speaker: ah son How many grizzly bears? See how the other side lives. That's all I'm saying. Got to check it out. Oh, if they have cotton candy in this one. um The grizzly bears apparently wanted nothing to do with him.
Speaker: That's sad, but that's fair. ah Where do you think the last one went? Probably the bathroom.
Speaker: Do you think he went... I think they just go wherever. and don't think they have to go to a location to go potty. Oh, Nayan, not to relieve itself. oh Just in there? Like, it's cave-like in there? um Gosh, where did the seventh bear go? It sounds like one of those kids... like So, one five bears go back in the yellow house. Yeah. it's so like
Speaker: Right. And then like, you know, you read the whole paragraph and for comprehension, they ask you where the seventh bear went. um I don't know. The bear was its own mother. The riddle was broken to begin with. The was the doctor, actually. yeah
Speaker: um Maybe to like another food area. He's not done. He's ravenous. Guys, I don't. I don't want to be the Debbie Downer for like the sixth time, but it went it went to the touch pool and they found it dead the next morning. yeah Well, um okay, before you get sad, Dr. M, you're right. ah The last one started heading towards the zoo restaurant before employees chased it back using sirens and shotgun blasts into the air. Yeehaw. Oh, goodness I've never seen that episode of Yogi Bear, but that does sound more effective than what they've tried in the past.
Speaker: So nobody got hurt. No bears were injured. The zoo eventually decided maybe teaching polar bears where the marshmallows are stored wasn't the strongest long term plan. I don't even touch cat food when they're in the room. oh And they're just out there teasing these polar bears.
Speaker: I know, it's right there, swim away. Almost 50 years later. Wait, hang on, over 50 years later. Wow, almost 50 years. Guys, this is an hour time zone difference. I'm not in math mode anymore. So, this is also, they did create it, they turned it into a kid's book, as you have to, for sure. It's called The Marshmallow Caper.
Speaker: whos By Gloria D. McLeowicz. Thank you, Gloria. And it's based off of something that happened at the Brookfield Zoo. Really? Brookfield? Mm-hmm. That's kind of fun. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: That's where it happened? Yes. Wow. That's pretty cool. That's the story of the marshmallow bears. I love that. Isn't that like that TTRPG where you like roll for bear? What's that one called? Honey heist.
Speaker: Yeah, honey heist. yeah I feel like that's based off this as well. That's probably in real life. And then I guess another thing about like the zoo at that time. Apparently people were feeding them animals every which way.
Speaker: up until 1970.
Speaker: One year, one year later, they said more. mean, um one year later, they stopped. But like, they yeah then they'd been doing it. Well, they ruined their lesson. Yeah, I have a feeling that this probably was the reason they stopped.
Speaker: Probably. That is um a fantastic story, though. And I want to read that book. aling Even though I know where the seventh it goes, I still want to read it.
Speaker: Apparently it was like a really famous story. Well, yeah. I feel like I would be famous now. the Could be all about it. I just say though, I'm patting myself on the back for clocking. It was a bear.
Speaker: you saw You heard Rushbello and thought bears. I did. They love a little sweet, squishy treat. can't imagine them having seven polar bears. A lot of polar bears. In a moated grotto.
Speaker: Yeah. That seems like too many. Mm-hmm. You're probably just running amok in the 60s. Maybe not as easy to share bears. No bear share program. Share bear? Maybe.
Speaker: Care bear share bear? Yeah. If you care, share a bear. Well, that's the two stories. Was share bear an empty brie like a Napster kind of thing? Bear share?
Speaker: Maybe. be That's fine. Sorry. That's okay. These are nice you guys. These were some fantastic stories. And I don't know about you guys, but I think we just spilled the kibble.
Speaker: As you know, my recent content involving stingrays has caused a lot of hurt. And after taking the last several minutes to imagine what the comments would be, I just wanted to take the time to really reflect and listen.
Speaker: um i think I missed the mark on this and I'm really sorry. Well, okay, then. I'm joking. Is that a joke?
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